People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform… — Julia Penelope Copy Share Image
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero,… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law. — Mel White Copy Share Image
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream. — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
